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3/17/2011 12:54PM

Japan Disaster Causes Demand for Iodide

The unfolding nuclear disaster in Japan is causing some people all the way in Georgia to rush to the pharmacy and purchase iodide. The World Health Organization says there is no evidence of a significant spread of radiation. Video courtesy of Fox News.

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I ... I just stores in the jewel and pharmacists are getting lots of calls from people wanting these hills ... according to the Centers for disease Control potassium iodine tablets ... can prevent the thyroid from absorbing radioactive iodine ... Dr Todd Parker at Piedmont Hospital tells him of the hospital is not getting requests for the hills ... it does keep one bottle in stock and we only is it really now for the cases of radiation poisoning at most pharmacies they're sold over-the-counter and many stores don't carry them to remove it from of ... from the cold War ... basically ... potassium iodine is being distributed by the Japanese government and citizens living near nuclear power plant damaged by the earthquake and tsunami your body can distinguish between regular iodine or of radioactive iodine ... if your body absorbs radioactive iodine into thyroid and a cancer ... so if you can block the metabolism of hovering reckon I'd I buy sector eating your thyroid gland ... well not to minimize or be radioactive ... despite assurances from health officials that Americans are not at risk from the reactors ... us drugstores coast to coast are reporting a sudden increase in sales ... it seems like anytime you have one of these other disasters ... come across come of them ... in the in the U S or in world wide for example when Hurricane Katrina came around ... we had a run of Embody which or to ... win ... the ... future ex scare came around we had a shortage of Sipprelle is one of the euro by Houston Street ... interests ... so it's not surprising to see this kind of panic effect for people buyout ... of medications that they can thinking they're going to themselves ...